Wilma Rudolph Quotes

“The Wilma Rudolph Foundation is still in existence and works with thousands of young people every year.”
― Jo Harper, Wilma Rudolph: Olympic Runner

“On April 4, 1968, the same day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, her favorite aunt, Matilda Rudolph, died in Clarksville.”
― Jo Harper, Wilma Rudolph: Olympic Runner

“Wilma was amazed that she, a sixteen-year-old high school girl, had a chance to be a part of the Olympics”
― Jo Harper, Wilma Rudolph: Olympic Runner

“Wilma had twenty-one brothers and sisters. She was child number twenty.”
― Jo Harper, Wilma Rudolph: Olympic Runner